Charlotte Moore Sitterly

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Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly (born September 24, 1898 in Ercildoun , Pennsylvania , † March 3, 1990 in Washington, DC ), was an American astronomer.

Life

Charlotte Moore graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in mathematics in 1920 and then became an assistant to Henry Norris Russell at Princeton University in New Jersey . In the late 1920s she moved to the Mount Wilson Observatory , where she worked for Harold D. Babcock . Here she was busy with work on the solar spectrum.

Based on this work, she received her doctorate in 1931 at the University of California at Berkeley. She then married the physics professor Bancroft W. Sitterly.

From 1945 she worked for the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) and at the Naval Research Laboratory further in the field of solar research . The tables of atomic energy levels and spectroscopic data compiled by her at the NBS were of great importance for spectroscopy in astronomy and other areas.

In 1937 she received the Annie J. Cannon Award , in 1990 the Bruce Medal for her lifetime achievement . In her honor, the asteroid 2110 was named Moore-Sitterly.

Fonts

  • Atomic lines in the sun-spot spectrum , Princeton University Press, 1933
  • Atomic energy levels as derived from the analyzes of optical spectra (3 volumes), US Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Washington DC 1949–1958
  • Jean W. Gallagher (Ed.): Tables of spectra of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms and ions , CRC Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8493-7420-0

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personal data
SURNAME Sitterly, Charlotte Moore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sitterly, Charlotte Emma Moore (full name); Moore, Charlotte Emma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Ercildoun , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1990
Place of death Washington, DC